[PeterWeb]

Hello everyone--

I am very new to this but I was able to get both IPTV Simple Client and IPTV Recorder to work really well on my Shield.  The only issue I have is that I fill up the memory on the Shield after about 4 programs.  I would love to be able to record onto an external drive but I can't get write permissions and it gives me an error when I try to set the record location to the external drive from within IPTV Recorder settings.

Does anyone have a step by step guide to let me know how I do this?  I haven't been able to find it anywhere.  

Thanks!

I found the answer to my own question.  You have to set up the external drive so that the Shield views it as part of its internal system...

https://shield.nvidia.com/blog/shield-tips-tricks   

I delighted to see someone who must have  figured out how to get ffmpeg working on a Shield, since you were able to make recordings.  I'm like several people posting recently who have been stuck on this step. The links at the start of this thread lead me to a ffmpeg-prebuilt-binaries.zip repository containing an ffmpeg binary build for ARMv7 (in the armabi-v7a subdirectory). Thanks to backwards compatibility, that should be fine for the ARMv8 (ARM Cortex-A57) CPU used in the 2019 Shield Pro.

So, I have the correct binary on my Shield and selected in IPTV Recorder's settings - no error or warning message when I do so. But when I select a record option when viewing a channel, I get the "ffmpeg exe not found!" error message others have reported. I've tried replacing the binary by re-entering it using a different filename (e.g. ffmpeg.7a) - still no error, until I try to record.  (There is no Delete ffmpeg option under Maintenance,  by the way, just Jobs and Rules).

Since I'm not alone with this problem, I'm hoping the poster above, who got it working, can provide a "which ffmeg, from where, how?" clue for other Shield users. I'll also gladly accept clues from anyone else

NB: the various Droid Hardware-detect applications won't install on the Shield, sadly, but the CPU info above seems to be correct from all the sources I've canvassed. 

Update in case it helps others:

My problem was twofold.

First was the external SSD formatted for internal use. Although I did this step as soon as I got my Shield, the Kodi I installed after that still didn't handle it ok. So I used the Storage menu option to convert back to the internal storage, reinstalled Kodi (as it was missing at that point, though its data was retained) reformatted the SSD as external, set things up and then ffmpeg setting was then ok, recording to the Kodi subdirectory on the SSD without issues.

Except that (the second issue) I also needed to adopt the arm64 build of ffmpeg available from https://github.com/Khang-NT/ffmpeg-binar...d/releases  - the armeabi-v7a version I'd started with from the first repository in primeval's links was exiting immediately without recording anything.

Still checking some details (are all recordings complete? Do I really need to keep Kodi running and the Shield awake all the time?? Is ComSkip somehow workable) - but the basic process is working.

Thank you for making and supporting IPTV Recorder!